This is a list of wars involving the Plurinational State of Bolivia and its predecessor states from 1809 to the present.
Conflict
Combatant 1
Combatant 2
Results
Bolivian War of Independence (1809–1825)
Republiquetas
Gran Colombia Peru Río de la Plata
Spain
Viceroyalty of Peru
Real Audiencia of Charcas
Patriot Victory
Independence of Bolivia from Spanish rule
Invasion of Chiquitos (1825)
Bolivia Gran Colombia Río de la Plata
Brazil
Defeat
Brazilian troops temporarily occupy the region of Chiquitos and Moxos
Simón Bolívar pledged not to support the Argentines on the issue of Cisplatina.
Peruvian intervention of Bolivia (1828)
Bolivia Gran Colombia
Peru
Defeat
Treaty of Piquiza
Salaverry-Santa Cruz War (1835–1836)
Luis José de Orbegoso's Opposition Andrés de Santa Cruz's Army
Felipe Santiago Salaverry's Government Agustín Gamarra's Rebels
Pro-confederation Victory
Foundation of the confederation
War of the Confederation (1836–1839)
Peru-Bolivian Confederation
North Peru
South Peru
Bolivia
Chile Peruvian Dissidents Argentina
Defeat
Dissolution of the confederation
War between Argentina and Peru–Bolivian Confederation (1837–1839)
Peru-Bolivian Confederation
Argentina
Stalemate
Argentine territorial integrity secured
Abandonment of the Bolivian pretentions of annexing the Argentine northern provinces[1]
Tarija is mostly distributed to Bolivia[2][3]
Peruvian-Bolivian War of 1841-1842 (1841–1842)
Bolivia
Peru
Indecisive, both sides claimed victory[4]
Signature of the Treaty of Puno
Withdrawal of the Peruvian troops from the Bolivian territory.
Bolivian withdrawal from southern Peru.[5]
Pérez Rebellion (1862)
Bolivia
General Gregorio Pérez's Rebels
Victory
Government victory
Constitutional Revolution of Sucre (1865–1866)
Bolivia
Constitutional Rebels
Victory
Government victory
Chincha Islands War (1865–1866)
Chile Peru Ecuador Bolivia
Spain
Indecisive, both sides claimed victory
Spanish withdrawal from the Chincha Islands
The state of war is maintained between the belligerent parties until the signing of an indefinite armistice in 1871
Subsequently, Spain and the South American allies signed peace treaties separately: Peru (1879), Bolivia (1879), Chile (1883), and Ecuador (1885)
Bolivian Civil War of 1870 (1870–1871)
Bolivia
Rebels
Victory
Government victory
War of the Pacific (1879–1883)
Bolivia Peru
Chile
Defeat
Litoral Department ceded by Bolivia to Chile
Argentine annexation of most of the Puna de Atacama in 1888
Chiriguano War (1892)
Bolivia
Chiriguano
Victory
Subjugation of the Chiriguano people
Bolivian Civil War (1898–1899)
Conservatives
Liberals
Defeat
Liberal Party victory
Creation of the Federal Government Junta
La Paz becomes de facto seat of government
Acre War (1899–1903)
Bolivia
Brazil Acre
Defeat
Capitulation of Bolivian troops in Acre[6]
Campaign of the Manuripi Region (1910)
Bolivia
Peru
Defeat[7]
Recognition of most of the territory in dispute as belonging to Peru.[8] Compliance with previous diplomatic agreements and final establishment of limits. Death of the Bolivian captain Lino Echevarria.
Chaco War (1932–1935)
Bolivia
Paraguay
Defeat
Most of the disputed area awarded to Paraguay. Paraguay was awarded the sovereignty of 75% of the disputed area and Bolivia was given the rest.[9]
World War II (1943–1945)
United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Chile Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Venezuela Uruguay Argentina
Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang
Victory
Collapse of the German Reich
Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
Creation of the United Nations
Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
Beginning of the Cold War
Bolivian National Revolution of 1952 (1952)
Bolivia
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
Defeat
Revolutionary victory
Guerrila Warfare in Bolivia (1966–1970)
Bolivia United States
ELN Cuba
Government Victory
Guerillas defeated
Che Guevara executed
Osvaldo Peredo Exiled
^"Guerra entre la Confederación Perú - Boliviana y la Argentina". History Channel.
^"La guerra de la Confederación boliviana contra la Confederación argentina". Historia Hoy de Argentina.
^"GUERRA CONTRA LA CONFEDERACIÓN PERUANO-BOLIVIANA - (1837- 1839)". La Gazeta.
^Porras Barrenechea, Raúl (1930). History of the Limits of Peru. Fundación M. J. Bustamante de la Fuente. ISBN 9786124587238.
^"LA GUERRA ENTRE PERÚ Y BOLIVIA DE 1841 Y 1842". Chilean Society of History and Geography.
^"A war for the Acre region pits Bolivia and Brazil". Efemerides.
^"Bolivia has lost more than 1 million km2". Infogate.
^"Bolivia lost more than half of its territory". Newspaper the Homeland.
^"La victoria del Paraguay a Bolivia, en paz al fin". BBC Lóndres.
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